We Go Down

Robert Cameron, famous for his Above Series of photography which included cities as far and wide as London, DC, Paris, Mexico City, New York and, both his home and love, San Francisco, died on Tuesday in Pacific Heights. The above picture is possibly one of my favorites, taken of San Francisco's SOMA, South Beach and Financial District, with the rest of this beautiful and raw city smothered in its characteristic dense morning fog at sunrise - notice the sun off in the western distance lifting its groggy little head - a fog that looks like the surface of an entirely alien world. 

His son had this to say about Cameron's final decision to leave the East Coast, a quote I wholly identify and concur with: "He said, 'I'm tired of the frozen winters and the steaming summers. I'm in love with the city of San Francisco, and I want to move there. Who's in?'"

Cameron's work as a photographer and clearly as a lover of this fractured world will be missed.